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To: THE ANT who wrote (64350)	6/22/2010 2:17:07 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217796

We will see more and more countries defending similar angles as Norway is doing. Fact is minnows no longer matter. The G-20 is not an event. Is a process. In this process, it is a first step to re-arrange the chairs around the table.

To: THE ANT who wrote (64350)	6/24/2010 5:51:18 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217796

Canada invites 10 developing countries to G8 summit: G-8+Negroes! Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Ethiopia, Malawi, Colombia, Haiti and Jamaica were designed to refocus the G8 towards issues relating to development, peace and security. Canada invites 10 developing countries to G8 summit By Bernard Simon in Toronto Published: June 24 2010 03:28 \| Last updated: June 24 2010 03:28 Canada is seeking to reinvigorate the Group of Eight industrial countries by inviting ten African, Caribbean and Latin American nations to take part in the group’s summit in Ontario this weekend. Canadian government officials said on Wednesday that the invitations to Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Ethiopia, Malawi, Colombia, Haiti and Jamaica were designed to refocus the G8 towards issues relating to development, peace and security. It had been widely assumed that this weekend’s meeting would be the G8’s last, as the group of rich industrial countries plus Russia is superseded by the broader G20, which includes, among others, China, India and Brazil. The scope for meaningful results from the G8 is limited by the need for the rich-world countries to avoid the impression that they are presenting their emerging-economy colleagues with a fait accompli. However, France, which is due to take over the chairmanship next year, has said that it intends to keep the G8 running. Describing the group that will meet this weekend as “the old G8, new and improved”, Len Edwards, Canada’s G8 and G20 sherpa, said that “we believe that this will be a very successful summit for the G8 and that it will prove its worth”. He added that the leaders would decide this weekend what form the group will take in future. Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister, has sought to play down potential tensions between the two groupings by distinguishing between the G20’s focus on economic issues, and the G8’s leadership in other areas such as development aid, terrorism, piracy on the high seas and nuclear proliferation. “[The G8] remains a fairly coherent group of countries that broadly speaking, share value systems, share interests, and where leaders are able to have much more informal and frank exchange on a range of issues,” Mr Harper told the Financial Times earlier this month. His own pet issue in Ontario will be a coordinated initiative to improve the health of mothers in developing countries. “The statistics remain quite shocking in terms of death in childbirth and death in the very early years of infancy”, Mr Harper said, “and…many of the things that can be done to prevent that are actually well known and not expensive”. His Conservative government has earmarked C$1bn to set up a fund for this purpose, but it has stirred up a hornet’s nest at home by excluding abortion initiatives. Mr Edwards said that the leaders of Colombia, Jamaica and Haiti would contribute to a discussion on ways to curb the global narcotics trade and criminal gangs. . Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web.